Jointed Dutch Doll
Beverly Chichester
1935/1942
Medium
watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 48.2 x 38.2 cm (19 x 15 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 11 1/4" high
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.15528
About the Artist
Beverly Chichester
Beverly Chichester was an American artist active in the mid-1930s and early 1940s, whose contributions to the Index of American Design reveal an eye particularly drawn to the world of American toys, dolls, and childhood objects. Working in watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard, Chichester produced a body of work distinguished by its delicacy of observation and its sympath...